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of their outer web, forming a large patch ; lower back and rump 

 rather more dusky than the upper back ; the upper tail-coverts 

 ashy-grey, with the centre or outer webs black, and the edge 

 white; the two centre tail-feathers black, six inches long, and 

 produced far beyond the tail ; the rest of the tail-feathers grey 

 with white margins, the inner ones blackish on the outer web ; 

 wing-coverts uniform grey, the greater series tipped with pale 

 cinnamon, forming a band along the upper margin of the 

 speculum ; the bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills grey, 

 except the outer webs of the latter and the tips, which are 

 dusky ; the secondaries externally bronzy-green, broadly tipped 

 with white, before which is a sub-terminal bar of black ; 

 the inner secondaries externally black, forming a broad hind 

 margin to the speculum ; crown of head, sides of face, and 

 upper throat chocolate-brown, the crown slightly mottled with 

 dusky, and the lower margin of the throat-patch inclining to 

 sooty-brown, with a streak of bronzy-green gloss from behind 

 the eye down the sides of the nape ; hind-neck ashy, with 

 scarcely any trace of freckling, separated from the crown by a 

 patch of black on the nape. Under surface of body pure white, 

 this running up on the sides of the neck and forming a broad 

 band which reaches to the nape ; the sides of the body freckled 

 with narrow wavy lines of grey ; on each side of the lower 

 flanks a conspicuous patch of buff; under tail-coverts black, 

 the lateral ones edged with white ; under wing-coverts ashy, 

 margined with white ; axillaries white, with a few dusky bars 

 or shaft-stripes ; bill black, pale leaden-blue on sides of upper 

 mandible ; legs and feet blackish-grey, paler on outside of tarsus 

 and web of toes ; iris brown. Total length, 25 inches ; culmen, 

 2-o; wing, 107; tail, 5*0; tarsus, I'g. 



Adult Female. — Different from the male. Brown above, the 

 feathers edged with sandy-buff or white and barred or irregu- 

 larly spotted with the same colour, the markings being gener- 

 ally in the shape of a horse-shoe; wing-coverts ashy-grey, with 

 whitish margins, more distinct on the greater coverts ; the 

 quills brown, darker at the ends ; the secondaries broadly edged 

 with white at the ends and slightly darker brown, but showing 

 no speculum ; the tail-feathers brown, margined with white 

 and irregularly barred with sandy-buff; crown of head rufous-, 

 brown, narrowly streaked with blackish ; the sides of the face 



